Travel with the VBMA

More than a vacation, Travel with the VBMA offers you a specially designed itinerary created in collaboration with a museum or other cultural organization. Exceptional exhibitions, marvelous performances and fine restaurants are yours to experience. Museum members have full access to these cultural excursions, but you can join the Armstrong Society for the Arts to receive special travel benefits including: advance trip notification and registration; trip discounts; and preferred seating at performances when available. Reserve your place. For more information, call Dane Roberts at (772) 231-0707 ext 109, or email droberts@verobeachmuseum.org. Reservations are limited and made on a first come, first served basis.

Art & Theater - July 28, 2010

Travel with the VBMA for Art & Theater! Join us in West Palm Beach on Wednesday, July 28, 2010 when we will visit the Norton Museum of Art, and see the play Low Down Dirty Blues at the Florida Stage's new venue in the Rinker Playhouse. Sign up today by calling Dane Roberts at (772) 231-0707, ext. 109.

Your day of Art & Theater begins in the morning at the Norton Museum of Art for their summer exhibition, Captivating Characters: Portraits from Rubens to Picasso. No subject has captured the artist's imagination as consistently throughout history as the human face. Whether imagining the features of an historical figure or representing the face of a love one, artists in the Norton Collection, including Gauguin, Renoir, and Soutine, explored portraiture to reveal the many dimensions of human emotion. the exhibitions Beyond the Figure: Absstract Sculpture in the Norton Museum Collection and Dinotopia: The Fantastical Art of James Gurney will also be on display.

Lunch will be at the BB King Blues Club where we will eat "southern style" in an atmosphere that sets the "stage" for our afternoon performance.

What are people saying about the Florida Stage? The Miami Herald reports that the Florida Stage is "as fine a regional theater experience as you can hope to have." The Florida Stage Company will inaugurate their new venue at the Rinker Playhouse with the musical Low Down Dirty Blues. When the crowd goes home for the night, the real show begins at this Blues bar, where musicians gather after hours to swap stories and songs filled with passion and soul, along with innuendo, insinuation and, above all, humor! Featuring the very best of the style made (in)famous by the likes of Mae West, Muddy Waters, Ma Rainey, Sophie Tucker, Howlin' Wolf, Pearl Bailey, and many others, Low Down Dirty Blues isa look at life in a rousing, raucous musical event!

The cost is $200 per person, or $175 with your ASFTA member discount. Don't miss the Society's summer trip! Space is limited, so be sure to reserve your place now. If you are not a Society member, become a member now to receive your special travel benefits, including trip discounts and advance registration and join us for all our 2010-11 trips.